Ask HN: Do you use OpenStreetMaps (OSM) Routing systems on production?

Posted by __bee on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:54PM
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Hi,

We are trying to replace [Google Maps]( https://developers.google.com/maps/premium/) to use other alternatives like Mapbox, HERE in the future. However, we found that there are some Open Source Project like OSRM [1], Valhalla [2]. I would like to know what is your experiences with OpenStreetMaps as a backend for routing systems. If it is the case, would you please share your opinion and experience.

[1]: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend

[2]: https://github.com/valhalla

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use OpenStreetMaps (OSM) Routing systems o... by senthilnayagam on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:40AM (#16985911)

I am developing on OSRM.

OSRM is done by Mapbox guys, Valhalla team has joined Mapbox.

PGrouting is very slow. OSRM expects data in OSM/PBF format for parsing. there are no Postgis plugins to export to OSM/PBF. QGIS is a friend. OSRM is fast but needs 2 times the size of index as memory, for one server we are using 36gb RAM. Openstreetmap has many abandoned projects, does not have many features available in commercial projects. openstreetmap needs a fork to make it competitive for current generation of GIS apps.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use OpenStreetMaps (OSM) Routing systems o... by Z_M_ on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:18AM (#16957306)

How about the pgRouting(http://pgrouting.org/index.html) project? It's based on postGIS and its database based routing approach.

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